This feature is intended to be used by customers who need to manage specific ranges of LUs along with the end users that have access to them.

As an alternative, the LU pooling feature can also be used to assign specific LU names to specific end users.

The LU pooling feature provides a simple and easy way for the BlueZone administrator to assign LU Pools (an LU pool is a range of LU names that are shared among multiple users) and or single LU names to specific users.

To use the feature, all that is needed is an understanding of your LU requirements and proper LU name formatting and an installed and working copy of the BlueZone License Manager version 3.6 or higher.

The License Manager group feature and the LU pooling feature work together to create a table that contains a range of LU names that are associated with a particular group name. In the BlueZone Emulation client, the BlueZone administrator configures the IP address of the License Manager, and the desired group name from which the end user receives an LU.

Ranges of LUs are doled out in round robin order. In other words, when a session is terminated and an LU becomes available, it is placed back into the pool for use by another end user but only after all the LUs that come after the recovered LU in that group have been used. This prevents an inoperable, or hung, LU that appears early in the range from constantly causing problems for the next end user in turn. Using round robin allows more time to pass before an LU is reused thus giving more time for the LU to be reset.